ABOUT

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Biography

Takumi Kato continues his practice and presentations while examining the properties and uses of materials and techniques centered on painting, together with their cultural and historical contexts.

Taking material-historical research across different periods and regions up to the present as a point of departure, he applies these insights to contemporary practice, developing a body of work that reconsiders what it means for humans to “make” and to “pass down” things.

Born in Nagoya, Japan

lives and works in Gifu, Japan

Education

Graduated from Osaka University of Arts

Teaching Experience

Lecturer(Painting Materials) Seian Zokei University

Lecturer(Fine Art) Nagoya Zokei University

Lecturer(Painting Materials) Kyoto City University of Arts

Guest Lecturer(Oil Painting/Mural Painting) Kyoto City University of Arts

Guest Lecturer(Oil Painting, "Series HEIMEN" Lecture and Workshop) Nagoya University of the Arts

Lecturer (Fine Art) Nagoya Zokei University

Solo Exhibitions

"Shadow Works" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"To Knead the Lights -From a Dialogue between Painting and Science-" BankART Station (Yokohama, Japan|as the unit 'KATO Takumi × YAMAWAKI Takeo')

"Moving Meditation" gallery N (Nagoya, Japan)

"Enthusiasm, Reverence, Obedience and Constancy" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"Gallery Collection Takumi Kato Recent Works 2020-22" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"To Do" gallery αM (αM Project 2022「Have something that defines my judgment」Curator：Machiko Chiba)（Tokyo, Japan）

"If it were" gallery N Kanda Branch (Tokyo, Japan)

"Quarry" gallery N (Nagoya, Japan)

"Re-touch" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"Clock Works" GALLERY MIKAWAYA (Kiyosu, Japan)

"ARRAY" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"〜|wave dash" awai art center(Matsumoto, Japan)

"Seen from a Vehicle" KulttuuriKauppila (Ii, Finland)

"Workspace" Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo, Japan)

"horse it" yebisu art labo. (Nagoya, Japan)

Group Exhibitions

"Gallery Collection 2026" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"Fundamentalz Fes" Komaba Shoukuukan, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

"Haste Makes Waste | KAGAJO Ken + KATO Takumi" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"From the museum collection 2022:third period" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Nagoya, Japan)

"Gallery Collection 2022" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas" (White Conduit Projects/London,UK)

"From the museum collection 2021:third period" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Nagoya, Japan)

"SUPERNATURE" White Conduit Projects (London, UK)

"Two-dimensional Expression over Two Eras: Shigeru Izumi and Six Contemporary Artists" Yoshimi Arts (Osaka, Japan)

"Online / Contactless" the three konohana - Yoshimi Arts (Online only)

"VOCA -The Vision of Contemporary Art" Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan)

"Grafting" naebono Art Studio(Sapporo, Japan)

"TIMELINE -Multiple Measures to Touch Time-" The Kyoto University Museum (Kyoto, Japan)

"Grafting" Art Space &Cafe Barrack (Seto, Japan)

"New Mutation" Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, Japan)

"Gallery Collection" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"Pacific Breeze" White Conduit Projects (London, UK)

"Transfer Guide" the three konohana (Osaka, Japan)

"±0mm" STUDIO 2-2-2 (Gifu, Japan)

"Reminder for Making Methods"'Prefectural Art Festival HANARART2015'Nakano traditional house and Former “To-ne” Rice Factory, Imai-cho (Kashihara, Nara)

"Gallerism 2015" KEIHAN CITY MALL TEMMABASHI (Osaka, Japan)

"Minokamo Annual 2015" Minokamo Cultural Forest (Gifu, Japan)

"Minokamo Annual 2014" Minokamo Cultural Forest (Gifu, Japan)

"Seni Mini" Mi Casa Su Casa (Singapore)

"Islands" The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series #13(Singapore)

"MI CASA SU CASA" MI CASA SU CASA (Singapore)

"The temptation of a self-portrait" Pontoporos gallery (Athens, Greece)

"Woodland gallery2013" Minokamo culture forest (Gifu, Japan)

"3 Japanese Artists in WEYA 2012" Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo, Japan)

"World Event Young Artists 2012" (Nottingham, UK)

"460 exhibition" Civic gallery Yada (Nagoya, Japan)

"9th Kumagai Morikazu Prize" (Nakatsugawa, Gifu, Japan)

"The fertile land" akibatamabi21 (Tokyo, Japan)

"China and Japan Exchange exhibition" The palace museum (Beijing, China)

"Group exhibition" Civic gallery Yada (Nagoya, Japan)

"Wonder seed 2007" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan)

"Contrast of Impacts" Aichi Art University (Aichi, Japan)

"Rise up" gallerie OU (Osaka, Japan)

Workshops

"Recipes for colours -Secret cooking-" SUNABA (Shiojiri, Japan)

"Techniques for ERROR" bankART KAIKO (Yokohama, Japan)

"About Painting Materials -Let's "cook" colours-" Kobe Art Village Center (Kobe, Japan)

"Material Eating Club （with Takahashi 'Takakahn' Seiji)" FIGYA (Osaka, Japan)

"Supermarket Painting" HANARART Office (Yamatokooriyama, Japan)

"Making Symbols" KEIHAN CITY MALL TEMMABASHI (Osaka, Japan)

"Making Symbols" West Bohemia University (Pilsen, Czech Republic)

"Making Symbols (Stencil Ver.)" West Bohemia University (Pilsen, Czech Republic)

(Japanese paper museum/ Aichi, Japan)

Public Talk

"Fab Meetup Nagoya vol.5" FabCafe Nagoya (Nagoya, Japan)

"Conservation and Creation" Akita University of Art (Akita, Japan)

"About Pigments" Cafe Hoshitoki (Gifu, Japan)

"Globe-Trotter Travel Guide for artists 2014" Gallery Out of Place (Nara, Japan)

"Empty space" BRDG (Antwerp, Belgium)

"Report for WEYA 2012" Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo, Japan)

"Workspace" Youkobo Art Space ( Tokyo, Japan)

"About painting" Akibatamabi21 (Tokyo, Japan)

Curatorial Projects

"TIMELINE -Multiple Measures to Touch Time-" The Kyoto University Museum (Kyoto, Japan)

"Reminder for Making Methods"'Prefectural Art Festival HANARART2015' Nakano traditional house and Former To-ne Rice Factory, Imai-cho (Kashihara, Nara)

"Big Museum" (Athens/ Greece)

"Islands" The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series #13(Singapore)

Artist Residencies

Artbreak (Ii, Finland)

City & Guilds of London Art School Artists in Residence(London, UK)

Kulttuurikauppila (Ii, Finland)

Mi Casa Su Casa (Singapore)

INSTINC (Singapore)

Publications

“Interdisciplinary Collaboration from the Perspective of Artistic Research: A Case Study of the ‘Pearlescent Pigment’ Project by an Artist and a Corporate Researcher,” Arts Management Studies (peer-reviewed), No. 26, pp. 39–45, March 31, 2026. Co-authored with Takeo Yamawaki.

“To Knead the Lights – Dialogue between Painting and Science –” (Archive Book), co-authored, self-published.

(Invited project report) “To Knead the Lights – Dialogue between Painting and Science –”, Fundamentalz Letters (pre-launch issue).

“Homemade Exterior Paints in the Northern Region of Finland: ‘Punamultamaali’ Survey and Its Usage as Painting Technique,” Bulletin of Nagoya Zokei University, no. 30. Nagoya Zokei University Institutional Repository.

Paint and Daily Life: Homemade Exterior Paint “Punamultamaali” in Finland and Surroundings, Self-published.(JP/EN)

TIMELINE – Multiple Measures to Touch Time -, Co-authored as part of the Project Archive Team, this and that.

(peer-reviewed, educational report) Contributor, in Eriko Oshima, Hayato Koizumi, and Kensuke Motegi (eds.), Remote Collaboration in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Teaching Practice Report (First Semester, 2020), Raiongakujutsu Shuppan.

Contributed essay, “Y/Our Statement”, REAR, no. 44, March 31, 2020.

Rebind: London 2018, Artist residency report, Youkobo Art Space.(JP/EN)

Public Collections

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

Awards / Grants

Member, Associazione Bastioni (Florence, Italy)

Received the Aichi Prefectural Arts Encouragement Prize.

Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan)

Ogasawara Foundation (fellowship)

Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation (fellowship)

EU Japan Fest Japan Committee (fellowship)

Nomura Foundation(fellowship)

30th Holbein Scholarship (fellowship)

Other Activities

"Fundamentalz"(Exchange program between Artists and Scientists)

“Vehicle” ,Workshop Series on Painting Materials

"Art Camp 2014" (Research) West Bohemia University (Pilsen, Czech Republic)